Goddesses

Between 1972 and 1986, Joseph Campbell—author of The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces—gave more than twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses. Across cultures and eras, he considered the figures, functions, symbols, and shifting forms of the feminine divine.

Edited by Safron Rossi, a goddess studies scholar, professor of mythology, and curator of collections at Opus Archives, this volume gathers those lectures for the first time. Drawing on the Joseph Campbell archival manuscript collection and personal library, Campbell traces the feminine divine from the Great Goddess of Neolithic Old Europe to its many expressions through the Renaissance, examining its enduring associations with transformation, initiation, and inspiration.